OGURA CLUTCH THAILAND INCREASES

PRODUCTION

esides China, requirements for automotive air

conditioning clutches are increasing through-

out Asia. Car air conditioning is no longer

considered a luxury, but a necessity. Because

of the increased demand, production capacity at

Ogura’s Thailand plant is being increased. The current

plant production area measures around 108,000 square

feet. The new expansion will add an additional 33,000

square feet. This area will include a new high volume

stamping line that will greatly increase the plant’s out-

put. Even though the plant area is only being increased

by around 30%, production capacity will increase by

60% over the current 2012 level. By the end of next

year, the plant will be able to build around 3.5 million

clutches per year. Even though the sales of air condi-

tioning clutches looks solid throughout Southeast Asia,

the plant is also looking at producing other high-

volume non-air conditioning clutches that are used in

industrial and other mobile applications.●

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Volume 51 ● Second Quarter ● 2012

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Kiryu, Japan

ast quarter, recertification audits for ISO9001

and ISO/TS16949 were conducted by three

auditors from the Lloyd’s Registry of Quality

Assurance. All departments were audited and

the audit was conducted according to the 2007 stan-

dard versus the previous 2002 standard. Ogura passed

all areas of the audit with no issues. Mr. Tawara

(Ogura group leader in charge of quality audits) said

that “these types of audits renew our awareness and

heighten our understanding of the rules and reminds us

to practice the PDCA (plan-do-check-act) cycle to-

wards achieving our goals to target and maximize con-

tinuous improvements.”●

ISO quality team meeting

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ISO9001 AND ISO/TS16949 RECERTIFIED

Rayong Prefecture, Thailand

Ogura Clutch Thailand

ast quarter, OCD exhibited in the 9th annual Guangzhou Interna-

tional Automotive Air Conditioning and Coal Chain Technology

Exposition. The show is held over three days and this year ex-

panded from 342 to 416 exhibitors. The show attracts not only Chinese

companies and visitors but many companies and visitors from outside of

China. At the show, Ogura showed its company video in the Chinese lan-

guage for the first time. This is the third year Ogura has exhibited at the

show and as a key supplier in the China automotive air conditioning mar-

ket, Ogura continues to draw new business opportunities from these types

of exhibitions.●

gura Industrial’s listing On ThomasNet.com

has recently been changed to include more

detailed information on Ogura. The mini-

page acts like a separate website so that all important

information about Ogura is located on one single page

of Thomas’ site. Videos about Ogura and the products

have also been added. Quick links have been posted on

the site that will allow potential customers direct access

to Ogura technical information with one click.●

Accounting Assistant

New Employee Profile

i! My name is Mellisa

Murawski and I recently

joined the team at Ogura

Industrial as an Accounting As-

sistant. I was born in Tennessee

and traveled a lot as a child due to

my father being in the military. I

moved to New Jersey in the sum-

mer of 2002 where I started my

career in accounting as an ac-

counts receivable clerk. Over the years, I have

worked in various business industries and have con-

tinued to grow and learn many areas of accounting. I

am currently attending Raritan Valley Community

College to earn my Associates in Liberal Arts with

hopes of gaining my Bachelor’s in Accounting from

Rutgers.

When I am not working and attending classes,

I spend my time with my three children, Madyson,

Jacob and Stefan who are 10, 8 and 8 months. I also

enjoy volleyball, dancing and all kinds of music.

However, my passion would be to travel.

I am very excited to have this opportunity at

Ogura Industrial and am looking forward to our fu-

ture endeavors.●

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THOMASNET IMPROVES OGURA’S LISTING

Mellisa Murawski

Mellisa Murawski

Ogura’s listing on Thomasnet.com

Somerset, NJ

Guangzhou, China

OGURA CHINA (OCD) EXHIBITS IN THE GUANGZHOU AIR CONDITIONING EXPOSITION

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Ogura booth set up at China show

Application Story

New Power Produced with Historic Windmill

olland, which is

known as the “mills

country”, has over

1,100 old mills. Some of

these are water-powered, but

most of these are wind-

powered. All of the old mills

were overdesigned for their

function of either grinding

grain, cutting wood or belt

driving older machinery. Be-

cause of this excess mechani-

cal capacity, it was thought

that a power generating sys-

tem could be added to provide

electrical power for the mill

and its immediate surrounding

area.

In November of 2011, the first

mill was chosen to receive this add-on

power package. It was built in 1851

and although some of the internal

workings have been replaced over the

years, they still are made to the origi-

nal wooden gear specifications.

The challenge was to create a

generating system that could mesh

with the main wooden gear. To do

this, a special gear of rollers (similar

to the concept of a roller chain) was

created. To save space, the plastic

rollers drive a right angle gearbox into the clutch and a

pancake generator. This allowed the entire package to

fit on one side of the wooden gear with no changes to

the windmill’s exterior.

The Ogura

MMC 70 is used to

electrically engage and

disengage the genera-

tor.

The mill blades

turn between 4 and 240

rpm.

There is a 10:1 speed up ratio

between the wooden gear and

the customer plastic roller

gear. So, the generator turns

between 40 and 240 rpm. If

wind speed causes the wheel

to turn faster than 240 rpm,

the clutch is automatically dis-

engaged to protect the genera-

tor. Also, if the miller wants

to grind grain and not utilize

the generator, the clutch is not

engaged increasing the overall

life of the generator.

Most of the electricity

produced by the generator is

consumed by the mill and the

attached restaurant. However,

any excess capacity

can also be fed back

into the national grid.

Total cost of

integrating this type

of system into these

old mills will vary

between €45,000-

€55,000, but the big-

gest advantages are

fewer red tape prob-

lems during installa-

tion and no detraction

from the historic na-

ture of the landscape.

The Dutch

company that put this system

together (Dochteren Ind.

Automation) is pleased with

the performance and the operation of the current sys-

tem and hopes that after additional testing, new instal-

lations will be added this year.

Ogura is very pleased to be involved with this

interesting green application.●

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Windmill wooden drive gear

driving new plastic roller

gears and clutch/generator

Netherlands

Ogura MMC

electric clutch

with high

torque robust

and compact

design for

long life is

used to drive

the 10 kW

windmill

generator

Ogura MMC electric clutch

Windmill and restaurant “De Zwiepsemolen”

Zwiepse/Lochem NL

Design News

Atlanta, GA

n the May issue of the

Design News Medical

Trend Watch, an arti-

cle by Ogura showed

how optometrists were us-

ing a spring-applied clutch

to achieve finer control of a

vision testing table. The

article explained how the

MCSC spring-applied

clutch allowed optometrists

to adjust the equipment to a

patient’s height quickly

giving a more accurate position

and decreasing the time patients need to spend with

the doctor. For the full story, please visit the editorial

section of Ogura Industrial’s website.●

In The News

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n the April issue of Ma-

chine Design, Ogura

was featured showing

how the clutch was used to

help modernize a 100-year-

old church clock. This was

the same application featured

in last quarter’s newsletter

application story, but Ma-

chine Design rewrote the ar-

ticle titled, “Clutch Helps

Keep Century Old Clock

Ticking.” Machine Design

interviewed the president of

Balzer Family Clockworks to get additional detail on

the application and why Ogura’s clutch was used to

replace the previous clutch in the application.●

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OGURA CLUTCH KEEPS OLD CLOCK TICKING

Machine Design

Machine Design

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Design News

CLUTCH INCREASES EFFICIENCY

LAWNMOWER RACING KICKS OFF THE 2012 SEASON ON TV

ox 5 News in Atlanta, Georgia interviewed Bobby Cleveland prior to his race in April at the Southern Shoot-

out. For the TV spot, one of the show’s co-anchors, Buck Lanford and reporter, Paul Milliken faced off for a

mini-race on two of Bobby’s racing mowers. Buck was on the Ogura machine and Paul on the other. Buck,

on the Ogura machine, won the race. (Fixed?)

To see the whole three minute interview and

mini-race, please go to http://

www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/17791992/

lawnmower-racing-comes-to-georgia and click

on the “more lawnmower racing video”.

In racing news, Ogura is proud to be

sponsoring Bobby Cleveland, once again, rid-

ing the Ogura Clutch machine for the 2012 sea-

son. He has already picked up a 1st and a 3rd

place finish in the BP class in the first few races

this year and is well on his way to having an-

other successful racing season.●

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Buck successfully winning his mini-race

on the Ogura Clutch machine

Buck Lanford, co-anchor for

Fox 5 News